Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 15

He bent his ear to the wind and heard the shouting of hunters, the yapping of dogs, and the clear whistles, which told how the hunt was going.

Who acts: Fionn, clear whistles, hunt, hunters · What happens: bend, hear, tell, go, shout · To what, where: ear, shouting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, clear whistles, hunt, hunters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ear	nmod:poss
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bent	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heard	cc
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shouting	det
11	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 hunters	case
13	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shouting	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 yapping	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 yapping	det
16	yapping	yapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shouting	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 dogs	case
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 yapping	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whistles	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 whistles	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 whistles	det
22	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 whistles	amod
23	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 whistles	parataxis
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 going	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hunt	det
29	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 going	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 told	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bend	past	Fionn	Fionn's ear	to the wind result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent ear=Patient to wind=Result
2	hear	past	Fionn not said here	the shouting of hunters and the yapping of dogs		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shouting=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	the clear whistles			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past · progressive	the hunt			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shout		hunters			nom shouting «communication intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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